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Donald Trump has praised the president of Liberia for speaking “such good English,” seemingly unaware that Liberia’s official language is, in fact, English.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

I would like to Return the compliment, but I can‘t.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Probably speaks better than him tbh. How long until he tries to rename English to American?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I was really hoping for him to be talking with someone in the UK or something

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Depending on the region, that might have validated him... /s

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

It's such a trump thing to do

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago (2 children)

They're "so well spoken". That's what makes them "one of the good ones".

If this turdsack actually makes it to Thanksgiving he's gonna go full racist while pardoning the turkey.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

It's a farmed turkey, it's mostly white meat.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I despise Trump more than most but this article is silly. Only about half of Liberians speak English, and less than 2% speak it as their first language. It's the official language because there are 31 different languages spoken in the country and they need something to be lingua franca so why not make it English for added international appeal. India is similar

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Presumably the leader of a country would be able to speak its official language, like how so many Canadian PMs speak both French and English

And even then, a better person wouldn't inject narcissism into their stupidity

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The official language of Liberia is English because the country was founded by former slaves and free black people from the USA.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Also why the flag is almost the same I guess?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Now you make me question whether it's a future deportation destination...

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 days ago

A lot of slightly smarter Americans wouldn't have taken the risk of such a remark, despite remaining oblivious to the mere existence of Liberia.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I want him to say that to Starmer

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

"Thank you Mister President."

"Yunno, your king speaks good English too, I see a lot of people here speaking good English."

"Again, thank you Mister President."

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 days ago

It's going to be a long 50 years. You think it's fun now, just imagine when Junior is on the throne.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

That's what an educated person sounds like Donald.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 days ago (3 children)

this is not trump being oblivious, this is trump being blatantly racist

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

He's lived in a bubble his entire life. for 60 years he lived in an aristocrat's bubble. and since he was in his mid to late 60s, he's lived in one where he's treated like a living god. He was raised by affluent , arrogant, racist and supremacist bastards, and that will never leave him.

remember a few weeks ago , if that. he had a fruedian slip and dropped an antisemetic remark when he was trying to talk about scammers or something?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

He's (probably accidentally) correct in this case, Joseph Boakai's first language is Kissi

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Probably negotiating the minting more DJT Caesar commemorative proofs. Act now and you can get a SECOND DJT CAESAR commemorative proof free. ~(additional shipping and handling charges will apply).~

[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They read a lot of books in Libraryia. Many such books. Everybody says so.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Yuuuuuge books, the biggest books anyone has ever seen

Inb4 it's a dictionary

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

"So many books. I can't believe how many books they had. There were books everywhere in this building."

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